Lightly but it was my stupid fault. No visible damage to either car. All fine till driver mentions he might 'find engine damage' by light of day. Just what I don't need. I KNEW going to DerW for a hot dog was a bad idea. But I was having an odd craving and couldn't think of anywhere else that has dogs.
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The grapevine (and, now, finding her blog post) told me that IG was appropriate impressed with Folex carpet cleaner. It's seriously miraculous stuff - a gabillion-trillion times better than anything else on the market but a relatively unknown product. Spray, blot, stain = GONE.
And I just saw, on their website, that it's good for clothing stains too. Why didn't that occur to me on my own? Doh!!
Moving on....
Awhile ago, I found that Folex comes in gallon jugs and can be used in carpet cleaning machines. So I bought a jug and set it in my house for weeks on end. Then, during my extended illness, I pulled out the carpet cleaner that I bought let's say... SIX YEARS... ago and assembled it. But that made me exhausted so, I put it back in the garage to ignore.
Two weeks ago, when the weather was just right, I pulled out the machine, loaded the soap thingie with Folex, and tried cleaning just the hallway... to mixed success. But I realized the soap dispenser had barely dispensed any of the miracle cleaner. No wonder my success was mild, I'd basically "cleaned" with just warm water (making the amount of filth that came out extra scary)!! And the carpets had a LOT of cat fur so that gunked up the works a lot.
Today I got another wild hair (wisely, I had not returned the machine to the garage), mixed the Folex directly into the water reservoir and tried again. WOW!! Some spots just instantly disappeared. One swipe and GONE. That was fantastic! Other spots disappeared after being allowed to sit for awhile. Others (the spots where I sit all the time) only lightened up, appearing to be perma-stains, but were still improved (since I have light gold carpet, I can bleach them).
I'd show pics but the carpet still looks pretty bad (8+ years of gold carpet, black cats, me being a slob and a general disbelief in cleaning... you do the math). You'd only know it looks MASSIVELY better if you'd seen it, in person, before today's cleaning. Plus, it's still damp and I know the Folex will keep working till it dries.
Of course having misc piles of shit up off the floor is helping too. Too bad most of them will be put back because, much like Richard Gere, they've "got nowhere else to go!!"
I only got through 2/3 of the house before running out of motivation and Folex. I still need to do the dining room and move furniture and repeat the living room. And I supposed the bedroom too (the only time the carpet under the bed has been cleaned was when Adrian took out the bed to paint the room) - esp the East side, where the cord wouldn't reach (and there's cat barf that needs to be cleaned up anyway)(gawd, these cats are getting to me!!).
I may y or 4 more jugs of Folex and use it straight up, no water, next time. I'm not sure. I'm also not sure why I hate vacuuming but tolerate using the carpet cleaner... they sound and feel almost identical, and the vacuum doesn't leave the carpet wet, so why do I slightly enjoy using the cleaner but want to ax murder anyone who turns on a vacuum?
And that's basically how I spent my weekend. Sat was spent almost entirely asleep. The longest I was awake was to get some dinner (chicken pho) and pick up med refills (oh, lordy, when did my Darvo scrip go from 30 pills to 60?? the bottle is too big for my cabinet). Then I took 2 xanax (I've been having insane levels of anxiety), passed out around 10p, moved to my bed at 12:30a, and slept till 1pm today. Screwed up my plans for the day but, hot damn, I feel better! (got all the kinks out of my body)
I forgot to share my happy news... I WON A $50 AMAZON GIFT CARD ON FRIDAY!! Random draw from a facebook contest run by BlackFriday.info, which posts all the day-after-thanksgiving ads as they're created - so you can plan your shopping/spending early (or, if you're like me, start craving all sorts of stuff you don't really need). That was an awesome start to the weekend!! It was offset by working till 1am, and some really shitty meetings throughout the day, but hey...I WON $50!!
Should I go out for a drink tonight? I think Puka Bar might be calling me.
and I only had to hang up on tech support in India once (a record for me!).
turns out that all i needed was my IP address. i eventually figured out how to hit the modem to see it (gee - just like hitting the router, but you have to be plugged in to the modem).
for future reference, the key to everything is
192.168.1.1
of course, if I can't get into the internet, I'll never be able to find that. So I used my label maker to put all the vital info on the router itself.
I hope I have at least another 2 years before I go through this again.
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11/14/09
Double Door Chicago, IL
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Such a nice night for mid-November at the 400 Bar. Athletes in Slacks (myspace) warmed up the crowd with their laidback loungey harmonizing sound that only two keyboarders and a guitarist can produce. The band claims all their songs are about love, except later on their hour-long set, they introduced a song about hating two guys from New York. They did finish strong with a cover of INXS's "Never Tear Us Apart", and that's what really matter.
The first time I heard about Swedish band Little Dragon, was in January. Ceji was really into them. Since we generally like Swedish bands here, I did try and keep up with their whereabouts. As it turns out, they're in the middle of their tour through the US to promote their sophomore album, Machine Dreams. Although the band's been here already, they confessed last night that this was their first time in Minneapolis.
From what I heard from their live set, their new songs seems to drifts from the R&B and Jazz influence to more electro and beats. I think the combination works well for them, especially since I like their big beats/electronica sound.
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I've been to a lot of shows lately, and I can tell you that this was one of the best shows yet. They're heading their way to the East Coast, so definitely check them out. If they're not heading through your city, you should check out Machine Dreams, out now on Peacefrog Records.
11/14/2009 03:52:14 ♥ vu (
) ♥ little-dragon.se ♥ myspace.com/yourlittledragon 19 Nov - The Step Inn Fortitude Valley, Queensland w Mexico City & Sue Ray
27 Nov - The Tote Melbourne, Victoria. w James McCann’s Dirty Skirt Band, Black Pony Express & Little John.
An honourable mention also has to go to Jamie Hutchings. I'm sure he's being playing shows in some form or another since before the dawn of time. Always enjoyable.... and, it seems, about to embark on a tour of europe, so if you're over that way, be sure to keep your eyes and ears peeled. Or maybe just look at his website for tour dates (might be easier).
20 Nov 2009 - MUM at World Bar, Kings Cross, Sydney, 21 Nov 2009 - The Clubhouse (formerly Empire Corner Bar), Fortitude Valley
This is the closest I've gotten to the place Guinness is born.
My DSL is repaired but will only work if I'm hooked up to the modem via an ethernet cable.
I've tried, for an hour this morning and another hour tonight, to configure the Linksys wireless router (which I installed and have previously reconfigured a couple times). It comes up as configured and connected but won't let me go anywhere - everything times out.
I think the problem is internet security settings... that I have them configured, somewhere, for the wireless router too. I've checked, disabled, and/or reset everything I can think of but still can't get internet access via my wireless router.
Yes, it is making me insane.
and he's earning his pay today. I'm getting a strong feeling that he can't find anything wrong.
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Was here at 820am. Had a device that sounded like spaceships. Made noises for about 15 min then left, saying he'd be right back. He left his parking cones so I guess I should be more hopeful.
I'm tired and have a wicked headache.
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Oh, well - I've forgotten the model numbers. This is what happens when you take the time at a party to learn someone's name - you learn their name and make the whole evening special but you sacrifice some other random piece of information. In this case, model numbers.
As far as I can tell, I used a PDP-10:
(Taken by Ed Thelen of material owned by Computer History Museum under the non-commercial rule.)
Followed shortly by a VAX 11/780:
Talk about good times. I had access to these only because I was friends with the system administrator at school. He set me up (I think I basically whined a lot until he did) with a user name and password. My first user name and therefore email address ever was "tomato". I don't know why I chose that. He said "What do you want for a user name?" and I spouted out "Tomato". So I was known as "tomato" for a few years. Whenever I logged in I'd hear "Hey, there is a Tomato on the system!". I had email and was able to send/receive with a few friends that were online also - mostly right there at the school.
A few years ago a customer was walking through my company and he was talking about how he had made all of his money in the "internet" and how he had his first email address in 1988. That's how he started his conversation. It was like "How did you get rich in the internet?" and his first statement was "I had my first email address in 1988". Obviously there was something else involved because I had my first email address in 1983 and I didn't make it big in the internet. Of course, the internet wasn't really there yet so much back then. I think there was ARPANET, etc - but I'm not going to go into all of that.
I didn't do anything really constructive on either of these systems at the time besides read newsgroups. Later, maybe around 1987 I had to have a "real" account because I had a class on the VAX so the "tomato" account went away and I moved to something like just "wilso_d" or something else mundane. At that point I was taking an operating system class and we had to write our own OS in something like C or Pascal. It's all vague at this point, but none-the-less, this was my moment to both PDP and VAX systems. Both were pretty good considering the time frame. All text-based as I recall with dumb-terminals. I think the world really was faster before the advent of fancy graphical user interfaces (aka Windows).
You can read more about the VAX here.
